THE Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights tabled a bipartisan report on Tuesday (Feb. 28) after a three-month public inquiry into "free speech".

The report floated twenty-two reform options but shied away from making any specific recommendations to repeal or amend 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, which makes it an offence to 'insult' or 'offend' someone based on race.

It did, however, propose permanent parliamentary oversight over the Human Rights Commission and streamlining of its complaint processes to deter vexatious litigants.

The flea also made an appearance in Nazi propaganda of the 1930s, where it was equated with Jews.

Fawcett initially said he'd intended to suggest that Labor had created the "irritation" of stress within the immigration department, but made a further late-night apology to the senate for his nasty caricature of asylum seekers.

The same morning, the department of immigration inadvertently tabled a draft statement to senate estimates. Omitted from the amended statement produced two hours later by departmental secretary Michael Pezzullo was an accusation that some asylum seekers demonstrate an "ongoing recalcitrance".

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Low-cost ride-hailing service Uber has for years used a tool called Greyball to identify and deceive regulators about the company's breaches of the law, according to a report by the New York Times.

By scanning data collected from the app and searching social media profiles and other information available online, Uber employees tagged some users as being linked to law enforcement.

A "Greyballed" user will see a set of ghost cars in a fake version of the app, or that there are no cars available.

Uber claims the tool's primary use is to prevent competitors from finding UberX drivers.

A disdain for local laws and regulation has helped thrust Uber, worth close to $70 billion, into more than seventy countries.

The latter had an effective interest rate of between 360% and 420% per annum.

Like others who applied for loans in-store, she missed out on any refund. By an enforceable undertaking brokered by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission last year, Cash Converters is obliged to refund small credit contracts only to individuals who applied for loans online between July 2013 and June 2016.

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On Thursday (March 2), Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) obtained a partial temporary injunction to restrain eight of its former partners from poaching clients and staff for white show Wall Street law shop White & Case. The restraint runs out in six months' time, on September 2.

At a directions hearing on Friday (March 3), the NSW Supreme Court set aside seven days for the final hearing in late June. The reasonableness of the restraint clauses in the partnership agreement is in dispute.

Labor Senator Murray Watt nearly fell out of his chair laughing and asked whether other events referred to in Brandis' senate statement which took place before March 3 should be obliterated from the public record.